On 11-3-26, the Washington Post penned an article that; "U.S. forces launch new ‘defensive’ strikes in Iran on eve of election", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

I know, it's a hard pill to swallow, but our President just crossed another line in the sand that he had drawn himself. And deserves impeachment for an illegal encroachment and belligerent military action for another nation's sovereignty with no basis of hostility toward the US and no Constituted authority granted by Congress as provided by Constitutional or International legality.

       On 11-3-26, the Washington Post penned an article that: "Trump’s embrace of dictators shows defiance. It’s bound to get worse." And on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

"Buckle up, America, because we may look back on the past two years as the stable part of Trump’s second term." (Reads the summary line of the article.)

Fair warning indeed. This rouge tyrant pretender has turned our center of government into a house of horrors. He has raided our Treasury and the Social Security Trust Fund like it was a personal bank account. His destruction of democratic principles for discussion and compromised solutions has been replaced with "Daddy know best" or "Daddy runs the house". That's based on tactics that include his private enforcement arm of the less-than-independent Department of Justice and a toady running our military defense arm. While a majority of confidents takes our supreme court of law into a twilight zone of offering tacit endorsements that ignore principles of Constitutional intervention on government abuses. It's truly an organized attack that would have seemed impossible, until it happened. And media inattention continues.

       On 10-28-26, the Washington Post penned the article: "We studied 180 voter-fraud cases. Many charged cite honest mistakes."  And on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

The article exposes that the Trump administration's investigative arm has less interest in finding fault in the process of educating voters and fashioned investigative reports to infer corruptive behavior. A clear sign their interest was supporting the Trump narrative rather than the innocence of misunderstanding voting rules. That reveals the character of the investigation's sinister nature and makes this process suspect.

      On 10-24-26, the Washington Post penned an article that: "Doctors’ offices are charging patients 10 times more by claiming to be hospitals", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

While the real irony is our Vice-President heads a created Dept of Justice group to attack medical fraud in ...California? And they are concentrating on the state government agencies representing users, not the billing originators. Of course, users seldom contribute to party campaigns.

       On 10-15-26, the Washington Post peened an article that: "Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom". and on that date the Enlightened prisoner responded thus:

Way to go WAPO. An obvious article deserving the people's "National Opacity Award" nomination.

      On 10-14-26, the Washington Post penned the article that: "Treasury Department imposes $1.2 billion penalty against Bank of America", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

This is the same angst I have about AI. The rules can be made but humans are by nature opportunists. They ponder opportunities and are very watchful and calculating of things that can bring them valued attention or line their pockets. There's factual prove of that all over our political landscape and some of those who should encourage regulation occupy the very seats of power that provide opportunity to muddle or deny regulation control. The biggest casualty is our country's sense of justice, fairness and reputation.

       On 10-5-26, the Washington Post penned an Opinion that: "This Supreme Court case is much bigger than oil and gas", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

The oil companies didn't invent the product, nature did. Companies just mine and process it in a way that affects the structure of our environment. Doesn't that entail a responsibility? Are their profits derived from a natural product used in a responsible way to benefit us and our environment, or to reward their business plan? Is SCOTUS obligated to protect the people's environment or the business plan?

      On 10-2-26, a post on Facebook quoted the House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson as having said about the Congressional elected officials: "We have to have sympathy. We need to at least let them engage in some stock trading so they can continue to take care of their family."  And on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus: 

Speaker Johnson makes a homie suggestion, but what's most concerning is the SEC already has laws on the books that makes those trades a crime when based on insider information that the rest of the buying public isn't privy too. And this Trump administration makes us aware for the existence of that law in just cases of Democrats who have a successful portfolio. 

Why the double standard you ask? Why indeed Mr. President and Speaker Johnson. The law we really need is a political ethics pledge that makes violations an immediate loss for occupying a political office... forever! But like most rules of value the attorneys will garble the process to the point of becoming meaningless. 

It seems Trump's regime of governance is taking us into the fact that ruining a government is easier done than running one.

       On 9-28-26, the Washington Post penned an article that "White House expands taxpayer-paid ad campaign boosting Trump", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

My dime being used to promote a Trump Regime on public networks? How crazy has this country become? The norms, the abuse of office, the violations of established protocol, the platform for accountability and transparency being manipulated for propaganda purposes, and the list just keeps growing. This is criminal behavior and being financed on the taxpayer's dime. Get a clue folks. Your democracy is being dismantled.

       On 9-24-26, the editorial page of "The Week" magazine printed the following in its "Viewpoint" column by Kevin D. Willamson in "The Dispatch", which is reproduced here on the Enlightened Prisoner blog site.

It is important to call things what they are.  Trump is a habitual liar who has made his political career on the support of people, often dumb and mostly angry, who enjoy being lied to.  JD Vanc is a schmuck, a spineless yes-man without honor or integrity who will do and say whatever shameful and humiliating thing must be done or said as he inches, wormlike, toward what he imagines to be real power. Trump is surrounded by a team of cretins, imcompetents, nepotism beneficiaries, drunks, degenerates, and sundry clueless clowns.  Their political goal is tyranny and the displacement of the American constitutional order by a Trump fronted Mafia state.